PhotosOff to a caliente start
Papa Marce's feels like Baja, drinks like San Diego
Ian Anderson 4 p.m., Oct. 19
Ian Anderson
Articles by Ian Anderson
Off to a caliente start
Papa Marce's feels like Baja, drinks like San Diego
The pair of Brewery Igniter turnkey brewhouses along the Carlsbad stretch of El Camino Real got off to a rocky start. The dudes behind Rouleur Brewing and Wiseguy Brewing were relative newcomers to San Diego, ...
A difference in breakfast sandwich philosophy
Crackheads a place to hang, not grab and go
There’s this undeveloped lot at the corner of Carlsbad Village Drive and State Street, the main crossroads of Carlsbad Village. Well, mostly undeveloped. For some time there’s been a little juice bar doing business out ...
Mutual Friend – a neighborhood ice cream shop
How homemade ice cream relates to coffee
Golden Hill has an ice cream shop, and it’s making me realize the sort of family neighborhood it’s become. Mutual Friend Ice Cream opened next door to Dark Horse Coffee Roasters, and I’d call it ...
Photogenic mole enchiladas
Colorful Mexico City style, Coronado address
Call it the food writer’s dilemma. Sometimes you eat something that tastes wonderful, even though it doesn’t always look that great. Because food-loving readers tend to share food stories mostly based on pretty photos of ...
It's new brewery season in San Diego
Five new reasons to explore local beer
After several years of a new San Diego brewery opening every two or three weeks, 2018 has progressed at a slower pace. Until the past two months, which has seen a flurry of new businesses ...
Beauty as well as bread
Artful pastries, chewable loaves, and a killer breakfast sandwich
The name Tartine lends about as much excitement as you’ll ever see attached to the word Bakery. San Francisco’s premier artisanal bread and pastry shop, Tartine Bakery has captured the food world’s imagination with a ...
The dirty martini of craft beer
Bitter Bros conjure Javier Plascencia's briny brew idea
I’ve heard brewers compare what they do to making soup, chili, or other kinds of cooking, but it’s not often you’ll hear a chef concur. “Brewers, they’re like cooks,” Javier Plascencia tells me, “they have ...
Pay attention, Pacific Beach!
Some of the country's best sandwiches are in your neighborhood
A marker board out front points out that Zagat has proclaimed Supernatural Sandwiches one of “15 must try sandwiches in America.” And I agree. For those of a younger generation, Zagat is like Yelp, but ...
Soul in a surf town
Fried pork chops bring out the pearly whites
If you’d told me two months ago I’d be sitting in a church banquet hall eating soul food, I’d have bet I was taking a trip to the South. Instead it was a short drive ...
